Mid-West Family Broadcasting invites you to the Eighth Annual "Everything Weddings Expo & Style Show" on Sunday, January 29, 2012. This event will be located at Prairie Capital Convention Center from Noon ‘til 4pm with the Bridal Elegance Style Show from 3pm - 4pm. Find everything you need to make your spectacular wedding happen all in one place, meet over 30 vendors with dresses, tuxes, party supplies, caterers, bakeries, reception halls, DJ’s and more... check in begins at 11:30am in the lobby of PCCC. Admission is $5 at the door - Click for details!
The Hoogland Center for the Arts, Gordon Productions, the SIU Voice Center and 970 WMAY present Ain’t Misbehavin’... The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930's Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway's best.
The show will be performed in the LRS Theatre at the Hoogland Center for the Arts on Friday, January 27 at 8 p.m., Saturday, January 28 at 8 p.m., Sunday, January 29 at 2 p.m. and on the following Friday, February 3 at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 4 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 5 at 2 p.m. Call the box office at 217-523-2787, or log on to www.hcfta.org for more information.
Listen to 970 WMAY for a chance to win tickets to the show!
It's the New England Patriots vs. New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, February 5, 2012. 970 WMAY starts the radio coverage with Super Bowl Preview at 2 PM... Kevin Harlan and Boomer Esiason call the big game with kick off at 5:30 PM!
The NFL on WMAY is sponsored by Glenn Brothers Garage Door Company, St. John's AthletiCare, your local Merlin 200,000 Miles Shop, Flowers By Mary Lou & Attorney Bradford C. Bucklin.
970 WMAY presents the Miller Lite and Springfield Van & Storage Co. 16th Annual Midwest Tribute to the King Competition on March 9-10, 2012 at the Hilton Springfield. Enjoy the music and memories of the legendary King of Rock 'n Roll, Elvis Presley as presented by 15 Elvis Tribute Artists from around the country, as they compete for $3,600 in cash prizes with the winner going to the World Competition in August!
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday....
DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney urged conservatives to back off aggressive anti-immigration policies as the Republican presidential candidates vied for Hispanic votes Friday, a day marked by heightened tensions entering the final weekend before Florida's primary....
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation's colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they "jack up tuition" every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value....
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A U.S. citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has been freed after a week in captivity, the U.S. Embassy said....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America....
ROY, Utah (AP) -- The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The voyage of a cargo boat that carries space rocket components to Florida's coast for NASA and the Air Force has stalled in a western Kentucky river after it slammed into an aging traffic bridge....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials....